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Zaurus Regional User Groups / Alaska

« on: June 26, 2005, 03:16:44 pm »

Wasilla. I think I was the other guy BarryW mentioned.
Zaurus 6k. I know  2 guys in Palmer with 5500's.
How many here have already used their cellphone as a modem to dial in at home? ( I plan to thisd summer)
Did you use bluetooth, IR or USB?
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I have a modem CF card that works good in my 6K. Also  an ethernet CF card. Both allow internet/system access in different enviornments.
The cell  phone system in Nome is AMPS/800 analog with no services. Although I am working on gettting voicemail. If you come to Nome and have and AMPS  capabile phone I can sign you up on an expensive account :-P

Scotty

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Zaurus Regional User Groups / Alaska

« on: June 26, 2005, 02:57:37 pm »

I used to live in Alaska, now I live in Australia, does that count?

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Yep,, that counts   I was in Aussy in April/May visiting friends in NSW and Brisbane. Visited Steve Irwins Zoo,, (good place) and toured around some of the skiing places in NSW & part of Vic. I like the town of Tumut, NSW. I get rides on trikes and home built flying machines there
New Zealand is also a good place to goto.

Hang around  

 Scotty

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Zaurus Regional User Groups / Alaska

« on: June 26, 2005, 02:50:32 pm »

Wow,,  this is great. Welcome all

Alaska is a fine place to do  just about anything and because of the size and low population (half the population of Alaska is in the city of Anchorage(300,000)) the internet, ham radio, bicycle and dogsled are good ways to communicate. Both inside and outside the state.

Did U Know:- The Alaska Airlines Boardroom (lounge) at Anchorage and Seattle have wireless nodes that leak out the front door? I stand near the door and down load email. Then later go back and upload email replys   The Zaurus makes it easy while still carting all your gear around.

I use my SL6000W mainly for email when traveling. But when I get some time,, (    ) I will be exploring the other application programs that come with it, like spreadsheets, etc, etc. I am developing an interest in Relational Databases. Used to write proceedures in some of the older DBMs (can you say dBaseII, III & IV, and FoxBase ?)  In fact I just down loaded a MySQL, Zaurus,  version from;
http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/
But have to find some docs to see if it works. Any MySQL folks in this lineup?

Again Welcome, all, to this little corner of the forum.

Scotty

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Zaurus Regional User Groups / Alaska

« on: June 25, 2005, 02:44:01 pm »

I see there isn't a user group slot for Alaska. So this effort is to remedy the situation
Alaska is so big that it sort-of demands it's own corner in this forum. Like Australia,
if you look at a world map, you just can't help but notice it is there:)
I may be the only person in Alaska using a Sl6000. But I can't believe that
 I think there must be a few others out there too.  So here is where we can meet.

 I live in Nome, a small town 130 mile south of the arctic circle, near the area where Alaska and Siberia are almost joined. I have been using my SL6000W for almost a year and it has replaced my G3 iBook as the electronic traveling companion of  choice.

I see there hasn't been much activity here in this corner of the ZUG, and I have been a bit of a stranger here myself lately. But maybe things will pick up


 Scotty  Nome Alaska,,   http://mypdasite.com

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General Discussion / Pda Friendly Web Sites

« on: December 31, 2004, 12:04:42 am »

Thanks for the replys

 I have the www.mypdasite.com up and running with some links and have been searching for
more. Specificly, games,, I used to like the old Scott Adams games ( can anyone say 'VIC20' or 'C64')
and would like to find a text based adventure game that fits on the small screen PDAs.

Anyone have any suggestions?

 Thanks, Scotty,, Nome Alaska.   HAPPY NEW YEAR

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General Discussion / Pda Friendly Web Sites

« on: December 07, 2004, 06:59:08 pm »

I am exploring the possiablities with my SL 6000L and have found a few PDA portals, but not
a lot for small screen devices. So I started my own web site for PDAs. It is just now getting
up and running with a couple of news links. The goal of the site is to have a PDA useable
home page with links and items of interest to PDA web surfers.

The site name is www.mypdasite.com and it has a 'suggestion box' email link so anyone can
offer content suggestions and/or links. Could also make the site an email place if enough
people are interested.

Thanks, Nomeite,  Nome Alaska.

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General Discussion / Who are you and where are you from?

« on: October 10, 2004, 02:34:40 pm »

Scotty; age 60, living in Nome Alaska. Sailed here on a 27 foot sailboat a few years ago and the ocean froze solid so I came ashore for the first time in ten years.  Very much a Linux fan, although slightly above beginner in skill level. I have an iBook running Yellow Dog and OS9 plus a couple of Intel  desktop machines running Red Hat and Mandrake.

New SL 6000L owner. First PDA since a palmpilot a few years ago. (which gathers dust in a drawer).
I am very impressed with this machine !

Just got the domain, "mypdasite.com" want to make a pda friendly web site and would like suggestions for 'content'.  Try to make it a useful homepage for Zaurus people.   My 'other' page is nomegifts.com